James McCants seeks compensation for the loss of his thirty-year-old slave named March. McCants states that March was one of "forty hands" contracted by "the Commissioners of the Roads Bridges &c" to rebuild a bridge on the Little River. The petitioner recalls that "when some of the props gave way and in the falling of the arch the negro March received an injury in his back or loins of which he shortly afterwards died." Of the belief "that compensation for similar losses has been made by your honorable Body," McCants "trusts that his case will be taken into consideration and such relief granted as the circumstances of the case will authorise."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
